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Anthropic's family of general-purpose language AI models, offered in multiple Claude model tiers and generations.

Pricing

Official site · Nov 9, 2026, 7:47 AM
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.10

Representative current Claude Sonnet 5.5 standard API rate: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Cached input/cache hits are $0.10 per million tokens; prompt cache writes cost $2.50 per million tokens for 5-minute writes or $4 per million for 1-hour writes. Other Claude models have different rates.

Anthropic's official API pricing page lists token-based rates by model, rather than one price for the umbrella product Claude. Recorded the current Claude Sonnet 5.5 per-token rates as a representative current model tier; rates vary substantially by model and cache operation.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking
9
Benchmarkable
No
Model level
family
MMLU Pro
0.43
GPQA
0.33
HLE
0.04
LiveCodeBench
0.11
MATH-500
0.26
AIME
0

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